[PacMasterUpdate] Pacific Masters Update Happy Thanksgiving

[Update on Pacific Masters Swimming sent to members and friends.]

IF YOU HAVE MOVED
If you have moved and want to still receive  your copy of Swimmer 
Magazine, please  go to the Pacific Masters On-Line Change of Address 
page. Fill it out and your address will be changed and you will 
continue to receive USMS Swimmer Magazine.
	http://www.pacificmasters.org/admin/members/memberupdate.shtml

HAPPY THANKSGIVING
On behalf of Nancy Ridout, registrar, Barry Fasbender, Joan 
Alexander, Karen Dugan,  Jennifer Zietler, Joan Bervan, I would like 
to wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving. We hope that you will 
enjoy the holiday with your friends and family.

Pacific Masters is made up primarily of volunteers. It is only 
through those volunteers that we have the great programs that we have 
come to expect. There has been a lot of hard work by these volunteers 
that goes into the running of Pacific Masters Swimming. I am very 
thankful that we have them:

Nancy Ridout has been our registrar for a long time. She is also our 
Top Ten chairman. She answers all the calls people have about Pacific 
Masters. I believe that Pacific is the largest LMSC because of the 
hard work of Nancy. If anyone has a question about Masters swimming, 
she either answers the question or finds out the answer and then gets 
back to the person with the question.

Barry Fasbender has been our Vice President of Operations. He is also 
our sanctions chair. Every meet that Pacific sanctions has to be 
reviewed by Barry before it is granted a sanction. He reviews the 
meet sheet and works with the meet director to be sure that 
everything is properly done.

Karen Dugan has been out secretary for the past two years. She takes 
the minutes of the general meeting and the executive board meetings. 
After writing the minutes, the minutes have to be communicated to all 
110 Pacific Masters clubs.

Joanne Bervan is our newsletter editor. She works on six editions 
every year. All eight pages have to be written, checked and 
rechecked. Then it has to be sent to the magazine people so it makes 
it on time.

Jennifer Zietler has been our Treasurer for the past two years. She 
made sure that everyone was paid on time. She just became a teacher 
which has very much limited her extra time. We thank her for the her 
work over the past two years.

Cindy Clements has done a phenomenal  job working with the Open Water 
Directors to produce great open water events. Cindy had to be sure 
that the safety rules were adhered to and that all of the paper work 
was done and properly turned it. Then after it is turned it, there 
are usually errors that have to be corrected. Thank you Cindy for the 
great job that you did over the past few years.

Bill Grohe has been the At-Large chair for the past two years. Bill 
has worked hard with new clubs and has worked to get new meets for 
Pacific Masters swimmers.

Kerry O'Brien and Brian Stack have been the coaches chair for the 
past few years. They have had the experience to work with the coaches 
all the while working with their own teams. Thank you Kerry and Brian.

Every meet needs officials. Caroline Lambert our officials chair has 
been taking the names of all the officials who have worked Masters 
meets. This data base will be available so that we can get our meets 
properly officiated.

Leianne Crittenden worked hard to get Clyde Wilson to speak on 
nutrition at the Olympic Club for our members. Over 60 people 
attended the presentation.

Barbara Thomas, as the Administrative Vice President worked very 
diligently to get the all the paperwork done for Pacific Masters 
Swimming. As a very able writer she wrote many of nomination letters 
that we send to USMS national. She worked tirelessly for Pacific 
Masters, I am thankful that she work for us for the past few years. I 
have missed her since her untimely passing.

To all the Meet directors and volunteers, we could not have had the 
meets and the working of Pacific Masters without your help. You are 
the unsung heroes of Pacific Masters. I am thankful for all of you 
and I wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving.



PACIFIC MASTERS WEBSITE 12 YRS OLD
Yesterday, the Pacific Masters website became 12 years old. In that 
we years, the results of the pool meets and the open water meets have 
been posted. The Pacific Masters Newsletter have all be posted. It is 
a great place to find out how well you have swum over the past 12 
years.

Reno Winners Meet
The 14th Annual Reno "Winners" Meet will be held Saturday, 1 December 
2007 at the Northwest Pool in Reno, Nevada. The meet starts at noon, 
so that swimmers from the Bay Area can make the four hour drive to 
Reno the day of the meet. Remember Reno is at 4000 feet and that 
there is not much time between events.


PACIFIC MASTERS ANNUAL MEETING
The Pacific Masters Swimming Annual meeting was  held 14 November. 
There was an election of officers. The officers for 2008-2009 are

Chairman - Michael Moore
Vice Chair Administration - Joan Alexander
Vice Chair Operations - Barry Fasbender
Secretary - Karen Duggan
Treasurer - Linda Shoenberger
At-Large - Bill Grohe

The committee reviewed it accomplishments over the past year.

NAPA COACHS CLINIC
The Northern California Swimming Coaches  will be 4-6 January in 
Napa. Chris Campbell has information about clinic. Pacific Masters 
will reimburse coaches $50.00 of the clinic's $85 cost. For further 
information contact Chris Campbell at coaches at pacificmasters.org

NOVEMBER - DECEMBER NEWSLETTER
The November - December Pacific Masters Newsletter has been posted on 
the Pacific Masters website. It contains the 2008 schedule and meet 
information for meets in December and January.
    http://www.pacificmasters.org/newsltr/07/07novdec.pdf

PACIFIC MASTERS 2008 SCHEDULE
The 2008 Pacific Masters Schedule has been posted on the web site.

http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/schd.html

Currently 35 events are planned for the next year. Included in the 
schedule are short course yards, long course meters, short course 
meters and open water.

REGISTRATION
Pacific Masters members can now register for the 2008 year. The 
registration for is on the first page of the November - December 
newsletter. The cost for 2008 is $40.00 - a $5.00 increase that will 
be going to the national USMS organization.

Almost all the clubs have re-registered. Nancy has sent out invoices 
to most Pacific Masters members. You might have already sent sent in 
your money and still received an invoice - they are two different 
systems (we are working on  a new registration system for 2008). For 
those who have sent in their 2009 registration, 2009 cards will start 
to be sent out the end of this week (after Thanksgiving).

The Pacific Masters Committee hopes that you will register early. By 
registering early, you will continue to USMS Swimmer, your club will 
continue to be covered by USMS secondary insurance (if all the 
swimmers are USMS members), you receive borrowing privileges from 
Pacific Masters Video library and there is a central Pacific Masters 
office to answer your questions:
	http://www.pacificmasters.org/newsltr/07/07novdec.pdf


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Happy thanksgiving
michael
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michael w. moore
michael at mwmoore.org